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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is All Things with Kim Strassel, a Potomac Watch podcast.

Welcome to All Things with Kim Strassel, a Potomac Watch podcast for the Wall Street Journal

opinion page. And one week after a momentous election, I am delighted to be here with Tom

Bevan, who's a co-founder and executive editor of Real Clear Politics. Tom,

RCP, is a go-to for me every day. During an election season, it's a go-to many, many times

a day, not just to see your polling averages, but also all of the original content you guys

have on the site. I want to dive more broadly into the elections and the consequences in a minute, but just

briefly, one thing that I like to think about RCP is that, dare I say, it's humble approach

to the polls in that it doesn't claim to have some fancy model that's going to tell you that

Kamala Harris has precisely a 54.6% chance of winning

the election. You guys just, you go out there, you take the public polling, not private,

not sponsored polling, but you take the public polls, you aggregate it, you give an average,

and I would argue that by and large, your results have consistently been better indicators

than those models. Would you agree? But also, a number of polls really did get it wrong again this

time. What do you think? What went wrong? Well, first of all, thank you. It was a very kind

introduction. I think there is something to, and our averages have been more accurate than anyone over the course of the last 20 years. And I think one of the things, the reasons for that is because we do just produce a simple average, right? There's no secret sauce. It's not a black box. We're not not doing any waiting or manipulating of pollsters and then

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